Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center

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The Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center is located at 5410 East Broad Street in Lake Charles, LA and is a medium security county jail operated by the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Department.

This site tells you all the information about everything one might want to know about the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center, such as how to find an inmate at the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center, the jail’s address and phone number, intake procedures, how to find your court records, and lots more.

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Introduction

This guide is designed to give info that you need to make the process a little less stressful. If you have questions, just ask it, and any feedback or comments that could be beneficial to others will be much appreciated.

Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center Inmate Search

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Who’s In Jail

The Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center Inmate Search is a list of people currently in custody, which includes custody status, and visiting schedule. You can get info about anyone who has been arrested or released in the past 24 hour period. Jail inmates are listed alphabetically by last name. You can find the information more quickly if you’ve got the arrestee’s first and last name, birth date, or inmate ID Number.

Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center Policies and Procedures

Intake Procedures

The intake process at the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center includes the following steps:

They’ll put you in a holding cell. If there are a lot of arrests, it will take a while to get processed.

The first step is that you will have to answer some simple questions, such as what is your full legal name, home address, birth date and an emergency contact person, and also, you will also be asked about your medical and mental history. Next, you’ll be given an inmate ID and your fingerprints will be taken. Then, any personal property you have will be taken from you and stored until you are released.

They will let you make a phone call in order to talk to a member of your family, friend, or loved one.

If you are expected to be released quickly, you might be allowed to wear your street clothes, but if you are not expected to make bail quickly you you will have to change into a jumpsuit.

Discharge Procedures

When you finally post bail, you will be allowed to leave jail. Getting discharged may take anywhere between 15 minutes to all day. Or, simply, the faster you can pay your bail, the quicker you can get out of jail. Also, it depends on whether or not you’ve been given a cash bond amount or if a judge has to determine the amount of bail to be set. For minor charges, you will get booked and get released without having to post bail. If you have served a sentence in jail and are given a release date, you should plan to get discharged between 9am and noon.

Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center Visitation

In order to have visitors, inmates have to provide each visitor’s name to the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center before anyone can visit them. Your visitor’s information will be entered in a log of approved visitors as an Authorized visit. Every visitor must provide acceptable photo identification. Anyone showing up late or any visitors that are not approved to visit will not be able to attend visitation.

Visitation procedures can change, so you should call the jail at (337) 491-3800 before you go.

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Visitation Rules

To visit someone at the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center you must have your name on the inmate’s visitation list.

Be sure to take your valid driver’s license or government issued ID when you go to visit or you will not be allowed to enter.

No phones are allowed at Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center, and you will be searched before visiting. No personal belongings. Persons probation, parole, or other community corrections supervision must obtain the permission of both the superintendent and their individual supervising officer prior to a visit. Such visitation is not approved.

If a visitor is under the age of 18 is related to the inmate, they will have to be accompanied by an adult family member or guardian to include a member of the inmate’s extended family. If the visitor is younger than 18 years of age and is not related to the inmate, this visitor must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

Sending Mail to Inmates

This is what you need to know about sending letters, photos, postcards, greeting cards and even magazines to an inmate at the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center. Incoming and outgoing inmate mail at the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center is always searched and inspected for contraband that might threaten the security, safety or well-being of the facility, its staff, and inmates. Inmates can only receive metered, unstamped, plain white postcards no larger than 4″ x 6″ as mail. The writing on the postcard has to be in pencil or blue or black ink. If it has a stamp on it, it will get returned. If you write in green ink, then it will get returned. If you send any other kind of mail will be returned to the sender. If there is no return address on it, then the unauthorized mail will be stored in the inmate’s locker until the inmate gets release.

Do not include any of these things in the mail that you send to an inmate: any kind of threat to jail order, any description of the manufacture of weapons, bombs, incendiary devices, or tools for escape; do not encourage or advocate any kind of violence, hate speech, or racial or ethnic supremacy. Inmates are not allowed to write to other inmates.

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Sending Other Things to an Inmate

There are strict procedures that you must follow to send anything to an inmate at the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center. This includes sending money for to spend in the commissary, sending regular mail or photos, sending money for phone calls, and even postcards.

This page covers everthing you need to know about the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center to help you follow these procedures and guidelines. If you have questions, or there is something that you were looking for, but did not find, please contact us using the contact link in the site menu.

Public Records

Warrant Inquiry

If you think you might have a warrant out for your arrest, you are able to check the arrest warrants online or you are able to call the jail directly. You have to have their first and last name. You can also go to the local jail and ask the officer in charge. Bear in mind that if there is an arrest warrant out for you, you will be taken into custody immediately.

Arrest Record Search

If you know the person’s first and last name, as well as their arrest date, contact the jail, either by phone, go there in person, or find out online. Records of arrests are public record and the information is accessible to anyone.

Court Records

Court Records are public, and are accessible by anyone. They include a case file that contains a docket sheet and any documents and filings filed in your court case. You are able to access court records via the internet, or at Clerk of Court in the county where the case was filed.

Criminal Records

Each and every state maintains records of people’s criminal past. These databases are all connected so you are able to track criminal histories from another state. You can go to the Calcasieu Parish Courthouse and check in person, or check online. It helps to know the county, and in the event that the crime was in a totally different state, you may have to pay a fee for a more intensive search.

A search of someone’s criminal history you are able to get a report detailing any arrests, charges, or convictions that may be on a person’s record for DWI or DUI, drug Possession, kidnapping, sex offenses which could include rape, and sexual assault, violent crimes like assault or murder, or theft, breaking and entering.

Money & Commissary

The procedure to send money to inmates at the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center could change, so we suggest that you review the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center site when you send funds to an inmate there.

How To Send Money to an Inmate at Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center

You will have your own ‘bank account’ while in jail. This money is used to purchase items from the Commissary. Family and friends can deposit money into this account for you, and any money you earn while in prison will also be deposited into your account. Outside money can be paid in to your account via a money order, cash or check. If someone sends a check or money order, make sure that they write your inmate ID on it. The maximum amount you are allowed in your account is $290 per month.

Guidelines For Sending Money To An Inmate

Before you send any money you should find out what online money transfer companies the jail your inmate is incarcerated in uses. The exact method that the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center uses changes frequently, so it is best to call them at (337) 491-3800 to get the current payment method.

You may be required to be on the inmate’s visitation list in order to send them money, and be aware that they may have a limit on how much you deposit at one time, like $200-300 at a time, or a limit on how much money may be in the inmate’s account at one time.

Some of the money transfer firms being used by various facilities include JPay, MoneyGram, AccessCorrections, OffenderConnect, Touchpayonline, JailATM, WU, smartdeposit, and tigercommissary.

If an inmate has fines or are required to pay restitution then they will be subject to garnishment of their commissary/trust account. If the inmate has a garnishment, then money to pay them will be taken from the inmate’s bank account. In some cases it may be a percentage or the entire amount of the obligation, but the actual percentage depends on the circumstances. We recommend that inmates talk to the counselor at their facility and try to find out. You can also try to make an arrangement so that only a percentage of your commissary funds are taken, instead of all your funds take at one time.

Commissary

The commissary is the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center store. An inmate can buy different things here, like personal items, food, and things for writing. Keep in mind that you will most likely need to buy things from the commissary daily, and any infractions will get that privilege taken away from you.

The Commissary will sell an assortment of different products that inmates can buy if they have money in their account. These products include clothes, shoes, small snacks and other food items, in addition to hygiene products including soap, shampoo, and disposable razors for shaving. The commissary also sells other things like books and magazines, televisions and radios, playing cards, headphones, MP3 players, and electronic tablets. They also sell everything need to write home to family, friends, and loved ones: paper, envelopes, and stamps. If an inmate is indigent and cannot afford paper and stamps, the jail will provide these things to an inmate who has not had any money in their commissary account for at least 30 days.

Phone Calls & Phone Usage Policy

The only phone calls that Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center inmates are allowed to make are collect calls or through a pre-paid phone account . Phone calls made in jail are usually pricier than regular phone calls. There is no limit to when you can make phone calls, how long you can talk, and how often you can make calls, but inmates must keep in mind that a long line can form at the phones, because everyone wants to use the phone, too. If you break the rules, an inmate’s ability to use the phone might get cut back or eliminated completely, as part of the punishment.

Phone Number: (337) 491-3800

How To Save Money on Inmate Calls

Correctional facility phone service companies have exclusive contracts at every facility that they operate the phone services for, which means that they they control the prices. The profits these phone service providers make from all phone calls that inmates make are shared with the facility, so there is no incentive for the jail or the counselors at the facility to show inmates or their family how to save money on inmate phone calls at the Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center. The prices are posted and there are at least two different prices based on where the inmate is calling. These three factors will determine the cost of an inmate phone call: Where you are located; Where your inmate is located, What type of phone number you have.

For example, if your inmate is in federal prison, if you get a new local number then this will decrease your inmate’s phone call rate from $.21 per minute to only $.06 per minute.

For state prisons and local jails finding out how to decrease your inmates phone charges is more difficult. ArrestedResources.com is an expert in keeping up with all of the changes that affect your inmate’s rate and in most cases is able to offer you an inmate calling number that will save you significantly on inmate phone calls. There are some circumstances where we will not be able to save you any money, and in these cases we will not offer you an inmate calling number. In these cases, the jail or prison has set their phone rates so high that nobody can save you money.

For more detailed information on how to save on inmate calls at Calcasieu Parish Correctional Center, click the link below.

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